In
October of
1961, an
American racing driver named
Carroll Shelby[?] approached
AC Cars wanting to fit a 4.2 liter V8
Ford engine into the
AC Ace[?] chassis. AC Cars agreed and in March
1962, the first original Cobra was built. It was the first super-fast car. Not long after, they fitted a 4.7-litre engine, which boosted power from 165 to approximately 200 horsepower and gave it a new top speed of 140 miles per hour. AC Cars stopped producing Cobras in
1968, but Brian Angliss started producing them again in
1983.